Plow-fender.



J. G. SKIDMORE.

PLOW FENDER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 8, 1909.

- Patented June 21, 1910.

UNITED STATES PATENT @FFTCE.

JOHN C. SKIIDMORE, OF GRAPELAND, TEXAS.

PLOW-FENDER.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN C. SKIDMORE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Grapeland, in the county of Houston and State of Texas, haveinvented a new and useful Plow-Fender, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention has relation to plow fenders, and is an improvement overthe struc ture shown in my prior patent, granted October 22nd, 1907, No.868,714, and the present improvement consists in the novel constructionand arrangement of its parts, as hereinafter shown and described.

The object of the present invention is to provide a fender as indicatedwith clamping means whereby it may be adjustably attached to the beam ortooth of an agricultural implement without mutilating the beam or tooth,and, to accomplish this, the present invention includes clamping meansof specific form for receiving the beam or tooth without requiring thatthe said beam or tooth be perforated or otherwise mutilated.

A further object of the invention is to provide a fender of peculiarconfiguration, and which is of such shape as to be provided with anelongated slot without materially weakening its structure.

A hanger or guide forms a component part of the fender and is providedwith means for resiliently holding the same in place, and also means foradjustably connecting the same with the fender at the elongated slotthereof.

In the accompanying drawings :--Figure 1 is a side elevation, showingthe fender applied to the beam of a plow. Fig. 2 is a side elevation ofthe same, showing the fender applied to a harrow tooth. Fig. 3 is atransverse sectional view of the fender, showing the same applied to arectangular plow beam. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view through aharrow-tooth, showing a clamp member for attaching the fender to thetooth. Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view, showing means forattaching the fender blade to a rectangular plow beam. Fig. 6 is aperspective view of a clamping means'adapted to be used for securing thefender blade to a round plow-beam.

In the present invention the fender blade 1 is provided with an upperrear edge 2 approximately parallel with the lower rear edge. The fenderblade 1 is provided with Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 8, 1909.

Patented June 21, 1910.

Serial No. 506,574.

a longitudinally disposed elongated slot 3. The forward end of thefender blade 1 is mounted on a pivot-bolt 4, which, in turn, issupported by a clamp, which may be of any desired configuration, as willhereinafter appear.

A hanger or guide 5 is provided at its lower portion with a verticallydisposed slot 6, which receives the upper portion of the fender-blade 1.The lower portion of the guide or hanger 5 is provided in its inner andouter sides with vertically disposed slots 7, through which a bolt 8passes transversely. The said bolt 8 also passes transversely throughthe slot 3 in the fender-blade 1. A spring 10 is attached at its upperend to the hanger 5, and eXtends-rearwardly, and then down and forwardlyalong the side of the fender 1. The said spring then extends up throughthe slot 3 and terminates in a hooked extremity 9, which lies over theupper edge of the fender 1. The said spring 10 is under tension with atendency to hold the fenderblade 1 in depressed positions. The guide orhanger 5 is provided at its upper portion with a series of perforations11, any one of which is adapted to receive a pivot bolt 12.

A clamp 13 is adapted to receive a. plowbeam 14: (indicated in Figs. 1andS) or aharrow-tooth 15, (indicated in Figs. 2 and 1,) and is providedwith an upstanding portion 16, through which the pivot bolt 12 alsopasses. As illustrated in Figs. 1 and 5 of the drawing, a clamp member17 is applied to the beam 14 and supports the pivot bolt 45. As shown inFig. 4 of the drawing, a clamp member 18, which corresponds with theclamp member 17, but which is of slightly different construction isadapted to be applied to the harrow tooth 15. As illustrated in Fig. 6of the drawings, the clamp 19 which supports the pivot bolt 4 isprovided with bowed upper and lower portions, and therefore isespecially adapted to receive a round beam or support. Thus it will beseen that a variety of clamps of different patterns are provided inorder that the fender may be applied to plow beams irrespective of theirconfiguration, and the fender may also be applied to harrow orcultivator teeth. Furthermore, it will be seen that should it be desiredto shift or adjust the hanger or guide longitudinally of thefender-blade 1 it is necessary only to loosen the clamp 13, when thesaid guide may be adjusted along the fender-blade, as indicated, withoutrethrough the slots in the fender and hanger, and a spring attached tothe hanger and projecting laterally and passing through the slot in thefender and having a hooked extremity which lies over the upper edge ofthe fender. V

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixedmy signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN G. SKIDMORE. Vitnesses:

JNo. S. MORRIS, J. H. KIRKWooD.

